The total coal produced by Coal India Limited (CIL), a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Coal and Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), a joint undertaking of the Government of India and Government of Andhra Pradesh, during the month of September, 2006 was estimated at 27.23 million tonnes (mt) against 27.62 mt during the same month last year. The target set for these two companies for the month was 29.97 mt. During the month CIL and SCCL despached 20.70 mt coal to power sector.
During the month, e-marketing was conducted in all the coal producing companies of CIL and 1.92 mt of coal was allocated for e-auction. 1763 were successful out of 2146 participating bidders and the average gain over the average notified price was 38.1 per cent and that of floor price was 14.5 per cent.
DS/ AS/171006-CoalProdn-Sept-06
(Release ID :21387)